PRIVACY

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

The protec­tion of your personal data is very impor­tant to us.  As an asso­ci­a­tion based in Switzer­land, we are also committed to the high stan­dards of the Euro­pean Data Protec­tion Basic Regu­la­tion.

In the following we inform you about the collec­tion of personal data when using this website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you person­ally, e.g. name, address, e‑mail addresses, user behav­iour.

The person respon­sible pursuant to Art. 4 No. 7 EU Data Protec­tion Basic Regu­la­tion (DSGVO) is:

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance
c/o Endress+Hauser Process Solu­tions AG,
Christoph Merian-Ring 12, 4153 Reinach, Switzer­land

Board

Dr. Chris­tian Liedtke — Pres­i­dent

Hans-Jürgen Huber — Vice-Pres­i­dent

Dr. Marius Grath­wohl — Vice-Pres­i­dent

You can reach our data protec­tion officer at info@openindustry4.com.

Secu­rity

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance website is protected by tech­nical and orga­ni­za­tional secu­rity measures to prevent the loss, manip­u­la­tion, destruc­tion or access by unau­tho­rized persons to your personal data. Despite the use of the industry stan­dard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt the data trans­mitted between you and our website, complete protec­tion against all inci­dents is not possible.

Disclo­sure of personal data

No personal data will be trans­mitted to third parties without your express consent. A transfer to public author­i­ties, law enforce­ment author­i­ties and courts only takes place within the scope of a legal oblig­a­tion. In addi­tion, our employees are obliged to secrecy and the confi­den­tial handling of your provided personal data.

In this context, the member compa­nies orga­nized in the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Group in the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, as well as service providers contrac­tu­ally bound to us for order data processing, are not deemed to be third parties.

Collec­tion, processing and use of personal data

If you use our website for infor­ma­tion purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or other­wise provide us with infor­ma­tion, we only collect the personal data that your browser trans­mits to our server. This data is tech­ni­cally neces­sary for us to display our website to you and to guar­antee stability and secu­rity. This data also enables us to improve our services in a targeted manner. The legal basis in each case is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR (justi­fied interest).

These include

• Date and visit of the URL on which the visitor is located
• URL that the visitor has visited imme­di­ately before
• IP address and domain from which the access takes place
• Browser used
• Oper­ating system used
• Tech­nical infor­ma­tion about the visit (http method, http version, http status code, length of trans­ferred data)

Events

If you register for an event on the following website event.openindustry4.com, you agree that we may contact you by email regarding the event. If you do not wish to be contacted, please send an email to info@openindustry4.com with your request. 

We would like to point out that film and photo record­ings will be made as part of the “Digi­tize your Food” event on October 06th / 07th, 2021 at MULTIVAC in Wolfertschwenden. The record­ings will be used as part of the public rela­tions work of MULTIVAC and the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, primarily for their social media areas. If you do not wish to be filmed or photographed but would still like to partic­i­pate in the event, please contact the orga­ni­za­tion team at the check-in desk. We will then assign you a place that is not affected by the record­ings.

Use of Cookies

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance uses cookies to make its website attrac­tive and user-friendly. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your terminal device but do not contain any viruses or cause any damage. On the one hand, our website uses “session cookies”. These cookies track your move­ments between the various pages of our website during a session, so that you are not asked for the same infor­ma­tion that you have already provided on our website. When you close and reopen your browser, a new user session starts with a new cookie ID. On the other hand, so-called “global cookies” are used, which measure the traffic of the website and iden­tify the visi­tors and the session. These cookies are not deleted during the session, but replaced after one year.
You may prevent cookies from being saved by making the appro­priate browser settings. However, we do not recom­mend this in order to be able to use our website with full func­tion­ality.

Embedded Content

On our website we may even­tu­ally use videos of the company YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company of Google LLC, 1600 Amphithe­atre Parkway, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. We may have included YouTube videos in our online offering that are stored at http://www.youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. The inte­gra­tion of YouTube videos increases the attrac­tive­ness of our website. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.
When you visit the website, YouTube receives the infor­ma­tion that you have accessed the corre­sponding subpage of our website. In addi­tion, the data spec­i­fied in the section “Collec­tion, processing and use of personal data” are trans­mitted. This is done regard­less of whether YouTube provides a user account that you are logged in to or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not want your profile to be asso­ci­ated with YouTube, you should log out before acti­vating the button. YouTube stores your data in user profiles and uses them for the purposes of adver­tising, market research and/or tailoring its website to suit your needs. Such eval­u­a­tion is carried out in partic­ular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide demand-oriented adver­tising and to inform other users of the social network about your activ­i­ties on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exer­cise this right.

Further infor­ma­tion on the purpose and scope of data collec­tion and processing by YouTube can be found in the Privacy Policy. There you will also find further infor­ma­tion on your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Website analysis

 a) We may use Google Analytics on our website.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The infor­ma­tion gener­ated by the cookie about your use of the website will gener­ally be trans­mitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If IP anonymiza­tion is acti­vated on this website, however, Google will shorten your IP address before­hand within member states of the Euro­pean Union or in other contracting states of the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Economic Area. Only in excep­tional cases will the full IP address be trans­mitted to a Google server in the USA and short­ened there. On our behalf, Google will use this infor­ma­tion to eval­uate your use of the website and to compile reports on website activity.

You may prevent the storage of cookies by making the appro­priate settings in your browser soft­ware. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data gener­ated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and Google from processing this data by down­loading and installing the browser plug-in avail­able under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

We use Google Analytics with the exten­sion “_anonymizeIp()”. This shortens the processing of IP addresses, thus excluding the possi­bility of personal refer­ences.

We use Google Analytics to analyze and regu­larly improve the use of our website. We can use the statis­tics obtained to improve our offer and make it more inter­esting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For the excep­tional cases in which personal data is trans­ferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Third-party infor­ma­tion: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, Privacy policy overview: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and privacy state­ment: http://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy.

b) We may use cookies from the open-source web analytics soft­ware Matomo on our website. When you visit our site, infor­ma­tion about your use of the website (including your IP address) is stored in cookies. We use this infor­ma­tion to eval­uate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activ­i­ties for us and for research purposes, and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent according to Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR.

Please note that our website use Matomo with the “anonymizeIp()” exten­sion. This means that IP addresses are short­ened before being trans­mitted. As a result, a direct personal refer­ence in connec­tion with the stored data is gener­ally excluded. We may transfer the stored infor­ma­tion to third parties if required by law or if it is used for research purposes.

You may prevent the storage of cookies by making the appro­priate settings in your browser soft­ware.

Contact us

E‑Mail and Forms

As soon as you fill out a form on our website or contact us by e‑mail, the data trans­mitted by you will only be used to process your enquiry and will always be treated confi­den­tially.

If you contact us via our contact form, you must always state your first and last name, e‑mail address, title and industry. For the processing of these personal data for the purpose of processing your inquiry, you give us your express consent. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke this consent at any time.

The data collected for the purpose of estab­lishing contact will be deleted after storage is no longer required, or processing will be restricted if there are legal storage oblig­a­tions.

Links to websites of other providers

Our website may contain links to external websites. The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance was convinced at the time the links were set up that the linked pages did not repre­sent any illegal content. However, the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance cannot guar­antee contin­uous moni­toring and has no influ­ence what­so­ever on the content of the linked sites. There­fore, no liability is assumed for the contents after the link has been estab­lished.

Your rights

You have the following rights with regard to personal data concerning you:

• Right to infor­ma­tion,
• Right to recti­fi­ca­tion or dele­tion,
• Right to limit the processing,
• Right to object to the processing,
• Right to data trans­fer­ability.

To assert these rights, you can contact our data protec­tion officer at info@openindustry4.com free of charge.  

You also have the right to contact a data protec­tion super­vi­sory authority regarding the processing of your personal data by us.

Dele­tion periods

We delete all personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected or you have exer­cised your right to dele­tion. If there are legal storage oblig­a­tions or one of the other excep­tions from Art. 17 GDPR exists, we will delete the data concerned as quickly as possible.

Contact person

If you have any ques­tions about the design and func­tioning of the website, please contact: info@OpenIndustry4.com

Subject to change

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Privacy State­ment may be stored or printed at any time. However, the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance reserves the right to adapt the data protec­tion decla­ra­tion at any time in compli­ance with data protec­tion regu­la­tions in order to do justice to the contin­uous further devel­op­ment of the website.